With the birth of the steel-frame skyscraper in the late nineteenth century came a new breed of man, as bold and untamed as any this country had ever known. These "cowboys of the skies," as one journalist called them, were the structural ironworkers who walked steel beams -- no wider, often, than the face of a hardcover book -- hundreds of feet above ground, to raise the soaring towers and vaulting bridges that so abruptly transformed America in the twentieth century.
Many early ironworkers were former sailors, new Americans of Irish and Scandinavian descent accustomed to climbing tall ships' masts and schooled in the arts of rigging. Others came from a small Mohawk Indian reservation on the banks of the St. Lawrence River or from a constellation of seaside towns in Newfoundland. What all had in common were fortitude, courage, and a short life expectancy. "We do not die," went an early ironworkers' motto. "We are killed."
High Steel is the stirring epic of these men and of the icons they built -- and are building still. Shifting between past and present, Jim Rasenberger travels back to the earliest iron bridges and buildings of the nineteenth century; to the triumph of the Brooklyn Bridge and the 1907 tragedy of the Quebec Bridge, where seventy-five ironworkers, including thirty-three Mohawks, lost their lives in an instant; through New York's skyscraper boom of the late 1920s, when ironworkers were hailed as "industrial age heroes." All the while, Rasenberger documents the lives of several contempor-ary ironworkers raising steel on a twenty-first-century skyscraper, the Time Warner building in New York City.
This is a fast-paced, bare-knuckled portrait of vivid personalities, containing episodes of startling violence (as when ironworkers dynamited the Los Angeles Times building in 1910) and exhilarating adventure. In the end, High Steel is also a moving account of brotherhood and family. Many of those working in the trade today descend from multigenerational dynasties of ironworkers. As they walk steel, they follow in the footsteps of their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers.
We've all had the experience of looking at a par-ticularly awe-inspiring bridge or building and wondering, How did they do that? Jim Rasenberger asks -- and answers -- the question behind the question: What sort of person would willingly scale such heights, take such chances, face such danger? The result is a depiction of the American working class as it has seldom appeared in literature: strong, proud, autonomous, enduring, and utterly compelling.
Okay, let's talk about the Universe.
Say you are employed in the purchasing group of a business. You are in your office and what you need for the enterprise is in a storehouse over town. That's okay because you are linked by computer and all that you need to do to get what you need is enter the proper command and send. (Note that there is a inequity in the middle of command and demand.)
So what happens when you enter the proper command and instead of "send" you hit the back arrow?
What if you enter the proper command and then hit delete or any other button than send?
And what happens if you enter the proper command and hit send - but then call to cancel or hold the order?
What about this scenario - send the order, okay - wait, okay send it, oh no, stop - alright, I need this. Uh no... Maybe I don't. What is the storehouse going to do?
If you see where I am am going with this, good for you! If not, the office is You, the computer is your Link To Spirit and the storehouse is the Universe, which is waiting to fill your needs. Anyone we ask for, the Universe sees as an order and seeks to fill it.
What if we ask for something and we result this invite with "I don't deserve this", "I'm not worthy" or "I'm not good enough"? This is the spiritual equivalent of the delete button. The Universe presumes your attention is on what you want - so it provides the same. However if what you want is not what you Think, your order will be shipped with errors. Your order is sent through your thoughts and the Universe reads the order and sends it. This may not be what you desire to manifest in your life if you are sending that you are not worthy, good enough, not deserving. The Universe will hold your order until you're ready.
The Universe reads exactly what you are mental and sends back exactly what you are ready for - no more, no less.
So... What are you thinking?
How to Get anyone You Want in Life - Ordering From "The Universe"The Native American tribes had many distinct designs for face painting. Every tribe had it's own single design, but each someone would also paint their face reflecting a personal message or a originate having personal spiritual significance. Colors regularly used in painting their faces were red, black, green, white and yellow. Each of these colors had a clear meaning, red was the color of war, black the color of the living, green was meant to growth the wearer's night vision, white meant peace - i.e. Flying a white flag, and yellow signified death or an encounter with death. A few tribes would join together distinct meanings to each color, but most of them had the same meaning for each color.
Men would often paint lines on their cheeks, foreheads, and chin. And the women used mainly dots on their faces. Often the males would isolate their into two parts and paint each section differently. Most of their paintings were not very elaborate, and because the colors had signified a happening or feeling they used the color to justify meanings.
To originate your own itsybitsy Indian use some of the ideas below
Half Face Design.
1st Face. Take your toady and red paint and paint the top half of the face ending in a right line across the nose to the middle part of each ear. Take a medium brush and paint a blue line across the face from ear to ear. Paint another line in white below the blue line. The red paint needs to come down to these two lines. For added flare paint vertical stripes on the cheek and chin in red or black.
2nd Face.
With white paint and a toady paint the lower half of the face. The white paint should end just below the eyes. Next take black paint and a large flat brush and paint a black stripe from ear to ear across the eyes. The top of the strip should cover the eyebrows ending in line with the tip of the ears. The bottom should be right below the eyes and then slant down and end three fourths of the way down the ear. Black paint can also be applied to the lips. With a large round brush paint two vertical red lines on each cheek. Then take a small brush and paint a small white line across the forehead, above the black paint and you're done!
For girls a small feather or two on the cheek bone looks very pretty. Start with white paint and paint the white of the feathers. The edges should be a bit rough or jagged and the end should come down to a point. The shape of the feather can also be slightly curved. Draw a thin black line in the middle of each feather and then paint the lower half of the feather black. For a more natural effect let some of the white paint show through the black. Take the white paint again and paint two short lines or ribbons attached to the end of each feather. Edge the ribbons with black paint.
Native American Face Painting Ideas
Stills from Frozen River (click for larger image)
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There is a fine line when it comes to knowing when to use the gift of our own mental and knowing when to rely on guidance from a higher source. Every day we learn more about the world, our self and about others - adding to our potential to make better choices and decisions, but we should also be studying to listen to the "higher" voice of Spirit. Since many citizen are comfortable relying on their own insight and may not even be well-known with this polite force that is wanting to take you to where you want to be, I will speak to this.
Dr. Wayne Dyer said "To let go is to let God." This resonated with something my Native elders teach when they say "Be the hollow bone." This may attack the non-Native as an odd thing to say but when you know what is meant by this statement, you will understand the importance of these words.
The "bone" they speak of is the ulna which is in the wing of the eagle. This bone is hollow and it is this bone that we use to make eagle-bone whistles. The bone is ready to be formed by the maker and waiting to be filled with the breath that will bring forth its song.
Stills from Frozen River (click for larger image)
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Using this analogy, our elders teach that We are like this hollow bone, waiting to be filled with the breath of Spirit so that we may sing in harmony with our purpose and the Great Song of life. If you are feeling out of harmony with your purpose it may be that you are filled with your own ideas, thoughts and beliefs to the point that there is no room for the things of Spirit.
Instead of limitless wisdom flowing through us creating its spirit song, our miniature scope of knowing clogs the hollow and we hear only our own tune. The breath of Spirit is subtle and the timing rarely fits our idea of "right" (we want it All and we want it Now), and we fear that if we give up this illusion of control that we will crash.
Our potential to presuppose and resolve is a amazing gift and a vital attribute. This potential undoubtedly serves us as long as we remember that there exists a higher brain and a source greater than our own. Wisdom is shown when we know when to let go and let God.
I was asked once, "What happens if I let go and I fall?"
I asked in return, "What happens if you let go and find out that you can fly?"
The inventor can only take over if you allow it - This is your control.
Be the hollow bone and be filled with the things of Spirit. It is your potential to choose. That is the expression of free will. It is the choice of Spirit over self that determines wisdom.
Let Go, Let God - Being the Hollow BoneRune Mysteries Manhattan Legend of Corn Hair
Reider Serwin, who wrote "The Viking Red Man" traced more than 1,000 words in the Mohawk, Iroquois and Algonquin language to old Norse. Long before the Dutch infused their language on the Indians. The Dutch only arrived in 1626 to buy the Island of Manhattan for practically .00!
The Legend of Corn Hair
When Henry Hudson, in September 1609, sailed north he encountered a peaceful tribe know to History as the "Stockbridge Indians."
The Dutch built a profitable trade with the Indians using watered rum in return for beaver pelts. One of the traders was Jacob Van Mord. He recorded some of the legends of the Indians.
He was especially concerned in the tale of Warriors in Long Boats an old Indian legend. The fiercest of whom was their leader called "Corn Hair," by the Indians.
In 1743, when the Dutch tried to turn the tribe to Christianity, they refused. He reported to his superiors that the Pagan beliefs of the tribe, which was called the "Tribe of the Long Boat" were still very strong. They were afraid that the Vikings would return again and punish them if they left the Norse Pagan Gods for Christianity.
Little is know about the fierce Viking Warriors who so impressed the Indians. Only a few Rune Mysteries were found on the rocks, but no lawful authorities have tried to look into the rock inscriptions to find the true source of the Legends. But you can on the Net. I am leaving you good key words so you can do your own research.
Rune Mysteries New Jersey
In Pemberton, New Jersey, an inscribed stone axehead was found. A literal translation of the runes found on it would be "The Swedes took out Charter." Again there was no investigation.
Rune Mysteries Rhode Island
Rhode Island has a tower in Newport that has been the object of controversy for years. The lawful finding from the politically spoton is that it is a flour mill.
But the Runic Inscription and the fact that it resembles no other structure in America, but look structures in Norway, lends proof that it is probably a small fortress lighthouse built by the Vikings.
Indian Legend of Corn Hair, a Viking Who Came to Manhattan
